This week marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, which shocked the US public with images of oil-covered Alaskan ...
On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez (vahl-DEEZ’) ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began ...
In the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound ... and human health in the form of air pollution. Aggressive cleanup of some environments can cause more harm than the oil – Doug Helton ...
The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill Although not a recent event ... The economic impact of the spill was also major, with costly clean-up operations worth billions, local communities experiencing ...
Four deaths were tied to cleanup efforts. In 1994, a federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, but the U.S ...